Vault construction.



E. C. KLINE.

VAULT CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION man MAR. 7. 191e.

1,205,455. Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

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A TTORNEY UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.'

EVERETT C. KLINE, OF NOR/WOOD, OI-IIO, ASSIGN'OR'TO THE VICTOR SAFE & LOCK COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI', OHIO. A CORPORATION OF .OI-IIO.

VAULT CONSTRUCTION.

VSpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

, Application filed March 7, 1916. Serial` No. 82,551.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it knownthat I, EVERETT C. KLINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norwood, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vault Construction, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a construction of the door securing devices for bank vaults and the like, whereby the same may be opened from the inside.

throw the bolts to the unlocked position, and

remove the pressure devices from their locked position.

The advantages of the above are obvious in view of the fact that officials of banks are frequently locked within the vault, either by burglars or by accident.

My invention consists essentially in carrying a shaft, whereby the pressure system can be rotated into unlocked position, entirely through the door and so constructing the same at its inner end that it can be rotated by a suitable tool; also in providing the actuating device for the bolt-work with a squared socket on the inner side of the door, or other part adapted to be engaged and turned by a suitable tool. The cashier, or other official, may be provided` with a suitable tool or tools, preferably an implement comprising a screw-driver, whereby the lock may be opened and removed from locking position, a square or angular shank for throwing the bolts to unlocked position, and a socket for engaging and turning the shaft of the pressure system.

In order that a clearer understanding of my invention may be had, attention is hereby directed to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application and illustrating certain embodiments of my invention.

and Fig. door. Vault doors commonly are securely held in with horizontal bolts 2 secured ing bars 3, 3

I n the drawings Figure 1 represents an inside face view of'a vault door, Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section ofthe same, taken on line 2-2 of Fig. l, Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of the locking and bolt-actuating mechanism, Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a suitable tool for enabling a person imprisoned in the vault to unlock the door, Fig. 5 is an end view of the same, partly shown in section, G is an outside face view of the Referring to the drawings, I have illustrated a door in which the bolt-work is operated by means of carrying-bars in the wellkno'wn manner. It is to be understood that my invention is not limited to such a door, however, as it may be applied equally well to doors having other forms of bolt-operating mechanism, such as doors having what is known as geared bolt-work.

In'thedrawings, the door 1 is provided to the carryand slidably mounted in framemembers t.` The vertical bolts 5, 5l are secured to carrying-bars 6, 6', respectively, and are slidably mounted may be of usual construction, is contained within a casing 9, secured on the inner face of the door l, and having a cover plate 10.

`pivoted drop bolt l2 and the locking bolt 13,

which is adapted to extend between the dogs 14, which are pivoted at 15, to the door and also connected by the pin and slot connections 16, 17 to the carrying-bar 3.v The tumblers 11 are mounted on shaft 11, carrying knob 112 at the front of the door in the usual manner. The carrying-bar may be moved, when the lock is set for sliding the bolts, by means of the handle 18 mounted on spindle 19 journaled in the door having an arm 2O ,thereon which is connected by a pin and slot connection 21, 22 with the carrying-bar 3. The inner end of spindle 19 is provided with asquared socket 23, accessible from the inner side of the door. Y

The pressure system is operated by a shaft 24 carrying hand-wheel 25, constituting a hand-lever means, at the front of the door. Shaft 24 is connected to rotate vertical shaft 26, shaft 24 usually rotating shaft 26 by means of a worm gear connection (not shown) contained in the casing 27 in transverse lframe-members 7 and 8. The lock, which secured to the front of door 1. The upper and lower ends of vertical shaft v26 enter housings 28 and 28', secured to the front of the door, in which they are connected to rotate horizontal shafts 29, 29 usually by means of bevel gear connections 292. Shafts 29, 29,y by their rotation in one direction, apply the pressure devices for holding the locked door tightly against its seat, and by their rotation in the other direction, remove the pressure devices. This mechanism, of a Well knoivn character, is illustrated in Fig. 6. As shown, shafts 29 and 29 extend through bearings 41 adjacent the opposite side edges of the door and carry cams or eccentric pins at' their outer ends which are adapted to press against the front faces of the door jambs, or portions of the frame of the vault adjacent to the door opening. As illustrated, eccentric pins 42 at the ends of shafts 29, .29 are adapted to enter openings 43 in the lugs IH, 44, mounted on the jainb, when the shafts 29, 29 are in proper angular position to aline pins with openings 43. Lugs are provided with undercut recesses, with which the eccentric pins coact, when located therein, the rotation of hand-Wheel 25 in such case serving to press the door tightly against its seat. I

The actuating shaft 2i of the pressure system extends entirely through door 1, in accordance with' my invention, and is provided at its inner end With a squared or angular shank 24:. The portion of the frame with which the bolts coact to lock the door is indicated at 30. The vertical bolts 5 and 5 may be operated from the horizontal bolts 2 in any usual manner as by means of the pivoted bell-crank connections 31, 31.

A convenient tool for opening the door from the inside is indicated in Figs. 4c and in which a bar 32 is illustrated carrying a screw-driver 33 at one end and a squared shank 34 at the other, which is adapted to be inserted in the squared socket 23 oflthe bolt-actuating device. A second bar 35 is conveniently secured to bar 32, bar 35 having an enlarged head 3G through Which bar 32 extends and to which it is secured. Bar 35 is provided with an enlarged head 37 at the other end Within which is formed a squared socket 3S adapted to tit over the squared shank 2e of the Worm shaft or actuating shaft of the pressure system.

lf it is desired or becomes necessary to open the vault door from the inside, the person imprisoned first applies the screuv driver 38 to the three knurled thumb-screws to remove the outer cover 10 from the lock. Upon the removal of cover 10. the screw-driver is applied to the thumb-screw 40 which holds the dog or drop bolt 12. Upon the removal of this thumb-screw, the drop bolt 12 is slid out of position. The lock bolt 13 of the lock is then slid back from between the fingers or dogs 14 of carrying bar 3, so that the carrying bar and bolts are f ree to be moved to unlocked position. The square end 34 of the Wrench or implement is then inserted in the squared socket 23 of the actuating device. 20 and is given a turn to throw the carrying-bar 3 and the bolt-Work to the unlocked position. The socket end 38 of the wrench is then applied to the squared shank 24 of the actuating shaft 24 of the pressure system. Rotation of the wrench in t'he proper direction serves to rotate shafts 29, 2. to entirely remove pressure from the door, so that the same can now be opened from the inside.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows 1. In vault construction, the combination of a door, locking means therefor, a shaft extending entirely through the door and having a hand lever means at the outer end thereof and a portion' extending from the inner end thereof, adapted to be engaged by a suitable implement from the inner side of the door, to turn the same, shafting on the outer side lof the door rotated in one direction or the other byV the rotation of said shaft, and pressure exerting means adapted to be applied to or removed from the door j amb by the rotation of said shafting and adapted to press the door firmly against its seat, substantially as set forth.

2L In vault construction, the combination of a door, bolt-Work for securing the same, lock means for the bolt-Work, on the inner side of the door, means for pressing the door firmly against its seat, means for actuating the bolt-Work when unlocked, comprising a Vshaft extending through the door having a recess of angular section in the inner end thereof, and means for actuating the doorpressing means including a shaft extending entirely through the door, having a manually operable'device at the outer end thereof and a portion of angular section at the inner end thereof, said recess and the angular portion of said last-named shaft being accessible from the inner side of the door. substantially as set f orth.

This specification signed and witnessed this 2nd dav of March, 1916.

Evnianfrr c. KLINE.

Witnesses:

Lnwrs J. IsnnLL, DAVID M. LEVY.

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